The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission outlined a sweeping plan to loosen the government’s oversight of high-speed internet providers, a rebuke of a landmark policy approved two years ago to ensure that all online content is treated the same by the companies that deliver broadband service to Americans. The chairman, Ajit Pai, said high-speed internet service should no longer be treated like a public utility with strict rules, as it is now.
Canadian police said they are investigating whether a beating captured on video, reported to have been distributed through social networking site Facebook Inc., may be connected to a young woman's murder. A Facebook spokeswoman said the company could not locate the video and therefore could not comment.
Russia's Kaspersky Lab has temporarily backed off filing a competition complaint that Microsoft is abusing its market dominance to crowd out anti-virus software makers such as itself, founder and Chief Executive Eugene Kaspersky said. Instead, Kaspersky -- who threatened in November to complain to the European Commission -- said he would keep talking to Microsoft about changes he wants the U.S. software giant to make before deciding whether to press his case in a few months.
A man in Thailand live-streamed himself murdering his baby daughter on Facebook, the latest example of the use of the social-media platform to broadcast disturbing, violent videos. The incident highlights the global scale of Facebook’s challenge in sifting through live video in different languages and countries largely from its offices in Silicon Valley.
Google is making a rare, sweeping change to the algorithm behind its powerful search engine to demote misleading, false and offensive articles online. Google is also setting new rules encouraging its “raters” -- the 10,000-plus staff that assess search results -- to flag web pages that host hoaxes, conspiracy theories and what the company calls “low-quality” content.
Hackers matching the profile of a pro-Kremlin group have tried in recent weeks to access campaign email accounts of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, a cybersecurity firm said, raising fears of election interference in the final two weeks of the France’s presidential campaign. In a report set to be published Tuesday, security-research firm Trend Micro identified a pro-Kremlin hacking group it calls Pawn Storm as the likely source of a multipronged phishing attack that started in mid-March against Mr. Macron’s campaign.
The Kremlin denied accusations that “key elements” of the Russian government had hacked into email accounts at Denmark’s Defense Ministry over the last two years in a sustained cyberattack. A new report by the Danish government’s Center for Cybersecurity said that hackers had breached email accounts and servers at both the Defense Ministry and the Foreign Ministry in 2015 and 2016.
The nation’s top telecommunications regulator is expected to unveil his strategy for rolling back Obama-era net neutrality rules, people familiar with the matter said, signaling the start of a new clash over internet regulation. The announcement is expected to be made at an event at the Newseum in Washington, where Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is scheduled to give a speech on “The Future of Internet Regulation,” according to those familiar with the matter.
Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, met with Facebook and other tech companies to seek feedback on his intention to unwind aspects of net neutrality, the rules that require broadband providers to make all internet content equally accessible for consumers. Mr. Pai said on Thursday that his visits with executives at Facebook, Cisco, Oracle and Intel were constructive and that he believed the companies wanted to find “common ground.”
Both Google and Mozilla recently introduced protections against a particularly nasty form of web-based phishing. It's called a homograph attack, and it can be nearly impossible to detect.
A judge sentenced Roman Valerevich Seleznev, 32, to 27 years in prison — the longest sentence handed down for hacking-related charges in the United States — for running a vast credit card and identity theft operation from his homes in Bali, Indonesia, and Vladivostok, Russia, and for selling millions of credit card numbers on the black market. Federal prosecutors had asked for a 30-year sentence. Mr. Seleznev’s schemes led to the theft and resale of more than two million credit card numbers, resulting in losses of at least $170 million.
The U.S. Homeland Security Department's inspector general said he was investigating possible abuse of authority in a case that triggered a lawsuit against the department by Twitter Inc. Inspector General John Roth described the probe in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who had asked for an investigation due to concerns about free speech protections.
The Federal Communications Commission offered another round of regulatory relief to the nation’s largest telecom companies. This time, the agency’s Republican chairman, Ajit Pai, opened the door for two potential changes: Increases in prices for certain organizations to access speedy internet services, and another round of consolidation by TV station owners.
In a move seen as a victory for net neutrality advocates, Canada's telecom regulator said all data delivered online should be treated equally by internet service providers as it blocked one company's effort to leverage content to win customers. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ruled that Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron can no longer offer unlimited music streaming from Spotify, Google Music and others to wireless customers without it counting against their data allowances, a practice known as zero-rating.
President-elect Donald Trump was very clear: “I will appoint a team to give me a plan within 90 days of taking office,” he said in January, after getting a U.S. intelligence assessment of Russian interference in last year’s elections and promising to address cybersecurity. Although Trump hits his 90-day mark, there is no team, no plan, and no clear answer from the White House on who would even be working on what.
Amazon, Facebook, Google, Snap and more than 150 other tech companies told a federal court in Virginia that it should toss U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to ban refugees and travelers from many majority-Muslim countries. In a brief filed in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, a host of Silicon Valley heavyweights lambasted Trump’s new order — his second attempt, after a judge blocked his first one — and stressed it would inflict “substantial harm on U.S. companies, their employees, and the entire economy.”
Internet regulators in China's capital plan to summon Apple Inc. to urge the American firm to tighten its checks on software applications available in its Apple Store, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The Beijing Cyberspace Administration, together with the Beijing Public Security Bureau and Beijing Cultural Market Administrative Law Enforcement Team, has already met representatives from Apple about the examination of live streaming apps from its app store, Xinhua said.
Bose knows what you're listening to. At least that's the claim of a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Illinois that accuses the high-end audio equipment maker of spying on its users and selling information about their listening habits without permission.
A coalition of consumer advocacy groups is calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to oppose requiring foreign nationals to provide their social media passwords to enter the U.S. In February, DHS Secretary John Kelly floated the idea of forcing citizens of certain countries to hand over their passwords as part of “enhanced vetting measures” supported by the Trump administration.
Amazon was awarded a patent for an on-demand manufacturing system designed to quickly produce clothing — and other products — only after a customer order is placed. The computerized system would include textile printers, cutters and an assembly line, as well as cameras designed to snap images of garments that would provide feedback on alterations needed in subsequent items.
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